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Dead elephant was a feast for the entire neighbourhoodFormer archaeology student Ivo Verheijen made a unique discovery in Schöningen in Germany: the almost complete skeleton of an extinct Eurasian straigh...
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André Ramcharan’s Leiden experience: ‘When I started, I didn’t see this as a career path.’André Ramcharan has been a familiar face at the Faculty of Archaeology for decades. Joining our faculty without any knowledge on animal bones, he has ...
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Alumna Matilda Siebrecht hosts Experimental Archaeology Podcast: ‘We want to show the range archaeological research can take.’Matilda Siebrecht has found the perfect combination of her interests, namely experimental archaeology, and journalism. She was asked by EXARC, a found...
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Walking among elephants: A 300,000-year-old, nearly complete elephant skeleton from SchöningenElephants ranged over Schöningen in Lower Saxony 300,000 years ago. In recent years, remains of at least ten elephants have been found at the Palaeoli...
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Archaeology student Grace left a lockdowned Leiden for her home country: ‘We jumped on one of the last remaining tickets’International Archaeology student Grace Alonzo went back to her home country when the coronavirus situation developed. Now she is living at her parent...
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Ancient DNA provides new insights into the early peopling of the CaribbeanAccording to a new study by an international team of researchers from the Caribbean, Europe and North America, the Caribbean was settled by several su...
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Amanda Henry in Sapiens.org about microfossils in a Finnish skeletal collectionThe Southwestern part of Finland isn’t exactly known as a great place for archeologists to go and find anything than the sturdiest of remains. The con...
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Employing Artificial Intelligence in the search for archaeological remainsWouter Verschoof-van der Vaart has developed a way to use Deep Learning and geography software to rapidly and systematically map prehistoric barrows, ...
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Corn connects many generations of MayaThat corn was highly important in the Maya culture is something that Genner Llanes Ortiz, himself a Maya from the Mexican province of Yucatan, has alw...
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The kick of citizen science: ‘It's a kind of addiction’Leiden archaeologists appealed for help from volunteers to search for archaeological remains on satellite images of Utrechtse Heuvelrug, a national pa...
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New insights into Neandertal knowledge from the mass-spectrometry analysis of plastic containersThe analysis of protein residues extracted from the storage containers of circa 50,000 year old bone-tools reveals Neandertal strategic selection of b...
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‘I miss the smell of old paper in the vault’Curators devote a lot of attention to their collections. How is Martijn Storms, curator of maps and atlases at Leiden University Libraries, managing t...
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Royal Distinction for archaeologist Maarten JansenOn 24 April it was announced that, following his farewell, archaeologist Professor Maarten Jansen was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion....
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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their storiesRemembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history...
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Aris Politopoulos lectures like an Assyrian king: ‘Video lectures need to be ten times more engaging’There are some lecturers who are better equipped to provide remote education than others. And then there is Aris Politopoulos, who already owned profe...